Proposals to F. E. Dzerzhinsky’s Conclusions on the State of Transport[1]

Written:Written August 8, 1921Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

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§ 1.Greaterattention to be paid to devising measures, etc.

2—4TheOrgbureau in co-operation with Comrade Rudzutak to
deal with these questions urgently.

5—Elaborateand carry out administratively.

6—Measuresfor improving transport and ensuring closer contact
between the Party apparatus and the railways.

[1]TheCentral Committee plenum considered the question of the state of
transport on August 8, 1921, and endorsed the conclusions of
F. E. Dzerzhinsky with the amendments proposed by Lenin.

PointI of the conclusions referred to the need for all
Party and administrative bodies to devise measures for improving and
assisting transport.

Points2-11-called for reinforcement of the apparatus
of the Com-missariat for Railways with top-level executives, the Issue of a
circular to all Guhernia Cornrtuttees of the R.C.P.(B,) concern-ing the
state of transport, and the organization of a transport subdepartment in
the C.C.’s Organisation and Instruction Department to take charge of Party
work on the railways.

Point5 of the conclusions called for all transport
servicing enterprises being turned over to the People’s Commissariat for
Railways.